"Guti!" the Ice Emperor roared, swiftly turning to face the two figures emerging slowly from the starlit void behind him, sneering, "Have you brought a helper for this trip?"

"Oh!" Night Rose gasped upon seeing the newcomers, "It's you?!"

Smiling faintly, Ji Changkong replied, "It is I. It has been quite some time."

After the initial surprise, the three Night Rose sisters exchanged complicated glances. Ji Changkong's appearance was clearly unexpected. Despite their cultivation levels, they couldn't discern his true power, only feeling that this reunion was somewhat awkward.

After all, the three of them had initially been loyal to the Ice Emperor, never expecting him to turn so vile as to consider taking them as his personal concubines.

"Why isn't it Ghost Mother who came?" The Ice Emperor stared coldly at Ji Changkong, disdain dripping from his voice, "Who is this brat?"

"Ghost Mother has more pressing matters and no time to bother with you," Guti strolled onto the meteorite, his tone leisurely. "This is Ji Changkong, the Divine Son of the God Clan. Oh, right, you should remember him—he's the one who destroyed the Life Vortex Wawa. Now does that ring a bell?"

Killing intent flared in the Ice Emperor's eyes, radiating a bone-chilling cold as he roared, "Brat, the complete destruction of my Ice Clan is entirely because of you! If it weren't for you, Ghost Fan wouldn't have wiped out my clan. You deserve to die ten thousand times over!"

"I came precisely so you can have your wish," Ji Changkong's expression remained unchanged as he descended onto the meteorite just behind Guti, chuckling, "However, you must also possess the ability to destroy me. Don't accidentally get flipped over and annihilated by my hand, or the Ice Clan will truly be extinct for good."

The Ice Clan was now down to this single remaining member. For years, the Ice Emperor had never forgotten the shame of their annihilation, constantly plotting revenge. Now, finally confronting the architect of their doom, the fire of vengeance in Bing Quan's heart raged into a roaring inferno.

Coldness spilled from his eyes, a chilling mist like gathering clouds that instantly enveloped the entire meteorite. In a mere instant, the meteorite ceased its rapid forward momentum, hanging motionless in the vast, dark expanse of stars.

A Frost Void manifested, condensing into a colossal net that instantly trapped the meteorite, imprisoning everyone upon it. The Night Rose sisters, with their comparatively lower cultivation, immediately shivered violently, their faces turning paper-white. Even the elders of the Night Charm Clan felt their bodies stiffen, their internal power seemingly shackled.

Guti let out a soft grunt, his eyes turning crimson, and a new fang sprouted from the corner of his mouth, nearly reaching his jawline, lending him a savage and bloodthirsty air.

A thick scent of blood emanated from Guti's body. Though Guti himself remained still, the sanguine aroma began to coalesce, transforming into scores of blood-red phantoms. Each phantom was the size of Guti, bearing his exact aura, their vital energy soaring heavenward, saturated with violent killing intent.

Dozens of these blood-red shadows layered one upon another, forming a tight perimeter around Guti at the center. Guti’s features slowly stretched into a cruel smile, and he uttered a sharp command: "Blood Burst!"

The scores of blood-red phantoms suddenly vanished into thin air. The next moment, alongside the Ice Emperor appeared phantoms like moths rushing into a flame. As soon as these blood shadows neared the Ice Emperor, they detonated, torrents of bloody energy, seemingly alive, rapidly engulfing him.

"I can only hold him for a moment," Guti suddenly turned, his face grim, looking toward Ji Changkong. Guti clearly expected Ji Changkong to intervene.

"Mm, I understand," Ji Changkong nodded, then abruptly closed his eyes.

Guti suddenly experienced a sensation of losing track of Ji Changkong. Though standing right beside him, Ji Changkong seemed to have vanished, leaving no spiritual fluctuation that Guti could detect—as if he had dissolved into nothingness, utterly erased. It was an incredibly strange feeling, and Guti frowned, wondering what trick Ji Changkong was playing.

Across the immense void, strands of peculiar lightning energy surged forth from the depths of the stellar river. Amidst piercing crackling sounds, massive thunderbolts began to crash down, instantly shattering the frost the Ice Emperor had woven over the meteorite. Amidst the continuous roar of thunder, the meteorite itself began to crumble.

The members of the Night Charm Clan, the moment the frost shattered into dust, slipped out from the chilling embrace together.

"Get as far away as you can," Ji Changkong opened his eyes, displaying an unnerving calmness. There was not a flicker of emotion in his gaze, creating a bizarre sense of absolute, rational coldness.

"Let's go!" Night Sheyun decided instantly, taking the lead and fleeing the meteorite while the Ice Emperor was still trapped by the blood qi. She darted off in a random direction. The elders of the Night Charm Clan followed without hesitation, vanishing in an instant.

Only the three Night Rose sisters hesitated, their expressions complex, watching Ji Changkong deeply, as if they had a thousand words unspoken.

"Hurry up and go!" Night Sheyun's sharp urging echoed from a great distance.

The three sisters gazed at Ji Changkong a little longer, but seeing that he didn't spare them a single glance, focusing all his attention on the Ice Emperor, they reluctantly departed amidst their mother's frantic cries. In a short time, the vast meteorite fragmented into hundreds of pieces, each fragment retaining an area of several hundred acres. The Ice Emperor still stood on one of these fragments, surrounded by churning blood qi, the muffled sounds of the blood explosions still echoing, even as torrents of lightning slammed down, striking the Ice Emperor’s head without missing a target.

The Ice Emperor remained motionless, like an ice sculpture, yet the gathering chill emanating from his body grew ever more intense.

"After escaping the Ghost Mother, the Ice Emperor's comprehension of the ultimate power of ice in the heavens and earth has deepened. Attacks of our level are insufficient to destroy his Ice Crystal Body. We must try another method!" Guti exclaimed softly. Before Ji Changkong could react, Guti suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.

That mouthful of blood exploded in the void, breaking into drops of crystal-clear essence, like rubies, flashing with a dazzling, mesmerizing aura. As if alive, the droplets of blood plunged into the adjacent giant meteorites. The moment a drop of Guti's blood entered them, the meteorites instantly increased their mass a hundredfold, their essence also radiating surging power.

Within Guti's crimson eyes, the meteorites were reflected. A surging, boiling strength suddenly erupted from Guti's body.

Those massive meteorites, having increased their weight a hundredfold, suddenly shot forward like lightning, one after another hurling toward Guti. Within these meteorites, crimson blood continuously burst forth in dazzling red light, the savage, bloody aura intensifying exponentially amidst their speed.

A giant meteorite struck the Ice Emperor first. His unmoving form finally swayed slightly. Guti's spirit lifted, and he redoubled his efforts, urging the meteorites infused with his essence blood.

But the respite was brief. The Ice Emperor quickly awoke. A frigid light flashed in his eyes, and his ice-crystal-like body became exquisitely transparent, revealing his internal organs. One could clearly see the mercury-like fluid flowing within, even his crystalline bones and the marrow encased within them.

A faint icy light erupted from within the Ice Emperor. Acupoints, resembling cold stars, began to stir inside him. It seemed as if a heavy snow began to fall throughout the world inside the Ice Emperor, and those active acupoints simultaneously released an astonishingly immense cold qi. This chilling energy diffused throughout his body, making the aura radiating from the Ice Emperor bone-chillingly severe.

"Crack! Crack!"

Centered on the Ice Emperor, everything—the speeding meteorites about to strike him, and the surrounding starscape—was instantly frozen solid.

The giant meteorites, caught mid-flight toward the Ice Emperor, suddenly stopped dead, as if time itself had been suspended. All sound instantly ceased; the entire world seemed to stop moving, save for the stirring acupoints within the Ice Emperor's body.

"Guti, I told you last time that the next time we meet, I would send you back into reincarnation," the Ice Emperor said coldly.

The drops of Guti's essence blood within the meteorites instantly turned to ice fragments and vanished from existence.

Guti, already pale, seemed to suffer a massive internal shock; his complexion grew so ashen it resembled that of a dead man. The dissipation of those drops of essence blood was clearly a severe blow to him.

The Ice Emperor sneered. The meteorites, though freezing over, began to hurtle back toward Guti and Ji Changkong with even greater speed. Guti's face changed, and he cried out in alarm, "Be careful!" Guti sprang forward, placing himself in front of Ji Changkong, intending to use his own power to block the Ice Emperor's assault.

"Move aside!" Ji Changkong impatiently shoved Guti away, scoffing, "I'm not so despicable as to let you act as my shield."

His thoughts shifted, and colossal flames manifested before him, unleashing an infernal power that incinerated all things. The attacking meteorites, before they could even approach Ji Changkong, had the Ice Emperor's chilling aura completely vaporized. Once the icy energy evaporated, the force of the meteorites was reduced by several hundredfold. Even when they impacted the meteorite where Ji Changkong stood, they caused little significant harm to the two of them.

"Source Fire!" the Ice Emperor uttered softly, then suddenly burst into laughter, "You even refined the Source Fire of the Netherworld Cold Flame. Excellent! Heaven truly aids me! I must have the Source Fire!" Laughing maniacally, the Ice Emperor suddenly transformed into an ice shard, stabbing directly toward Ji Changkong with astonishing speed.

"Source Fire is potent, but it is not yours to possess," Ji Changkong snorted, "Get lost!"

Thousands of enormous lightning bolts suddenly materialized from the void like writhing dragons, densely crisscrossing the space around Ji Changkong, tightly enclosing him at the center.

The icy world created by the Ice Emperor instantly shattered. The void itself collapsed into a deep vortex, dragging the Ice Emperor directly into its depths.